Aerial view from above of burning buildings after an attack by B-29 Superfortresses, Nagoya, Japan, 1945
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Photograph, aerial. View of burning buildings in Nagoya, Japan, after an attack by B-29 Superfortresses. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/21/45--Death of a Japanese City--The massed buildings of Nagoya, Japan's third largest city, break into a honeycomb of flames during an attack by U.S. B-29 Superfortresses. A cluster of incendiaries drop toward the target at the right [left]. Superfortress attacks on Japan's major cities and their war factories have virtually wiped them out.--Army photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority--(list A out) 7164" Nagoya, Japan. 21 July 1945
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07/21/1945
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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Nagoya
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35.133
Longitude:
136.883
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial bombings--Japan
Aerial photographs--Japan
Bombs--American--Japan